Pages

Saturday, 25 August 2012

Butterflies galore

Good Morning Peeps, time for a new challenge at Allsorts and this week it's my turn to host the theme and I have chosen It's a Gift' so that can be gift box, a tag, decorated bag so on and so forth.

I rather like the shape of these octagonal boxes which are really quick and easy to make using a scoreboard, you can find the tutorial I did for them here. The border around the bottom is cut using a spellbinder die which I stamped onto using one of the ivy stamps from the Pick of the Bunch Fuchsia set designed by Ruth of A Passion for Cards.

I coloured the ivy with Copics and inked the edge of the strip with distress ink, then added snails, butterflies and dragonflies from the Rose, Peony and Rudbeckia stamp sheets……you might know as they are all floral that I would get my grubby mitts on all six sets and boy have I had fun working with them. I added a strip of matching braid and created the dome top to the lid using Nesties and adding yet more butterflies and a tassel.

I really hope you will find time to join in this weeks challenge and look forward to visiting you all.

It's absolutely ages since I joined in with any challenges, but I happened to notice a couple on my travels but I thought my box was fit, so here goes:

Meanwhile my thanks as always for your visit and I hope you all have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend, lets hope the weather is kind, although it doesn't look too promising judging by the long range forecast.

42 comments:

Wow.It's fabulous. I missed your original post with this type of box as I was in the middle of moving in here. Have checked out the tutorial and bookmarked it. Great box design and this one is lovely. Really impressed with the Spellbinder die border. It's really effective. Have a good weekend. Hope Buffy is still pain free and enjoying her time with you.Beryl xx

These colours are delightful together & I particularly like that tassel & your braid. The little snail is an absolute delight (providing he remains embodied in paper (the compost bin is crawling......) & I have a real weakness for images of ivy.Thanks for the deilghtful tutorial.Paula (PEP)

Welcome to Floral Fantaises

My charity of choice

I donate cards to raise funds in the Visitors Centre

Translate

Pinterest

Member of

I design for

I design for

Stamping Sensations Challenge

Penny Black and More Challenge

Allsorts Challenge

A member of

It makes me happy if my work provides inspiration, but please do not directly copy for submission to challenges or magazines. I am always happy to answer questions about products and techniques I use, please mailmeto ask.